On Friday 04 January 2008, Stefan Mielke wrote: > if I have a wrong syntax in for example a vhost config, > 'apache2ctl graceful' warns about the bad syntax (Syntax error on > line ..) but then tries to restart apache2 causing a shutdown.
This has been like this forever, but the documentation is contradictory. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html documents the current behaviour, while http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/apachectl.html and the man page claim that apache2ctl does a config check. I agree that this is a bug (and have fixed it in unstable) but I don't think it is severe enough to be fixed in a stable upload. But you can use /etc/init.d/apache2 reload instead, which does a config check first. Note that even if the config check succeeds, apache may still die on a graceful reload (e.g. if a certificate is missing). See the first URL above for more information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
